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Sick Leave and Illness Benefit

• The full Sick Leave Policy is available from HR – this is just a shortened explanatory note to assist your understanding of this area.
• If you have been absent due to illness for more than three consecutive days (6 days from the 1st January 2014) and pay PRSI Class A stamps, you must claim illness benefit from the Department of Social Protection.  Please check your payslips to ensure you are aware of the PRSI category to which you belong to.
• St. Angela’s College sick leave policy allows you to get paid while you are on sick leave (up to certain limits).  Therefore, we require that you claim illness benefit while you are absent so that St. Angela’s College can receive a partial refund of the monies paid out.
• The sick leave policy requires that you get a medical certificate off the doctor if you are going to be absent due to illness for more than two consecutive days.
• When attending the doctor/GP for the medical certificate, please ensure you get a MC1 application form also.

How to claim Illness Benefit

1. Go to the doctor and get a first Social Welfare medical certificate (known as MC1), which includes an application form.
2. Complete the MC1 application form in full.  Ensure that you provide you own PPS number, and the PPS number(s) and other details of any other person you wish to claim an increase for such as spouse/civil partner/cohabitant and children.
3. Make sure you sign the declaration on the application form.
4. You will require our Registration number (Employers PRSI No): 9671833 A
5. Please do not allow the cheques to be sent directly to you, for ease of processing and to apply the appropriate tax charges, the cheques should be sent directly to the employer.
   • Tick the box that indicates “paid directly to the employer”
   • In the comment box write “Please send cheques to: St. Angela’s College, Lough Gill Sligo”
6. Hand your certificate to your local Social Welfare office or post it to: Department of Social Protection, PO Box 1650, Dublin 1
7. Get an intermediate Social Welfare medical certificate (known as MC2) from your doctor each week for as long as you are ill, or until you are advised otherwise by your doctor or the Department.
8. Get a final Social Welfare medical certificate from your doctor before you go back to work.